ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News * February 2000 / 139 G r a n t s a n d A c q u i s i t i o n s Ann-Christe Young University o f Arkansas has received a $1.6 m illion gift from an alumna o f the class o f 1926. Etna McGaugh A tkinson’s gift, the largest ever made to the David W. Mullins Library, will b e placed in a perm anent endow m ent. The incom e from the Etna M cGaugh Atkinson Fund will generate funds to en h an ce library co llection s, primarily book s, journals, and electronic resources and in crease a cce ss to m any form s o f inform ation as new technologies em erge. T h e u n iv e r s it y ’s V ic e C h a n c e llo r fo r Advancem ent, G. David Gearhart, said, “Mrs. Atkinson was a lovely Southern lady w ho believed a great library was central to any research university. An avid reader herself, she understood the im portance o f the library as a resource for scholars, students, and faculty.” A n g e lo S ta te U n iv e rsity re ce iv e d an additional $ 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 from Eva Cam unez Tucker, w ho gave $125,000 to the W est T exas Collection earlier this year. The gift will be used to create an endow m ent to support the operational activities o f the West Texas Collection and the Center for the Study o f S o u th w e s te rn H istory and C u ltu re. R evenues from the endow m ent will be available for research, for the purchase o f historical books (especially those in Spanish), for public presentations, and for display preparation. The College o f DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illi­ nois, has received $100,000 to fund a cross- generational inform ation literacy outreach program. Awarded by the Ameritech Foun­ dation, this tw o-year pilot project will team high-school students and older adults in the library classroom to learn information literacy and com puting skills. U niversity o f M innesota has received a $68,000 National Leadership Grant from the Institute o f Museum and Library Services to support a w eek-long training institute in late Ju ly 2000 for early career librarians from groups under-represented in the profession. Tw enty diverse librarians in the first three years o f their careers will pursue a dual-fo­ cus curriculum: one aspect will explore lead­ ership, organizational behavior, and personal goal-setting; the second com ponent will pro­ vide training in the use o f new technologies to en h an ce library services. The Association o f Research Libraries O ffice o f Leadership and M anagem ent Services and the Univer­ sity O ffice o f Inform ation Technology will provide instruction. Contact Linda D eBeau Melting, libraries human resources director (e -m a il: l- d e b e @ tc .u m n .e d u ), or P eg g y Johnson, assistant university librarian (e-mail: m -john@tc.um n.edu), for more information. A c q u i s i t i o n s TheTelevision History Archive has opened at SyracLise LJniversity (SU) under the auspices o f the S. I. NewhoLuse School o f Public Com m unications Center for the Study o f PopLilar Television. The collection s range from interviews conducted by Steven H. Scheuer and Arthur Unger to scripts from many notable television shows, including a com plete series run o f “St. E lsew h ere,” w hich aired on NBC from 1982 to 1988. Also included in the collection are exam ples o f video art created at the Synapse Center, a post-prodLiction studio located at SU in the 1970s; s e le ctio n s from the 1950s show “OmnibLis,” w hich was one o f the industry’s first attempts at educational television; and television advertising cam paigns from B o b Klein and his com pany Klein &. More details about the archive can b e found at http:// libwww.syr.edu/information/media/archive/ main. htm. Com poser Tom Fettke has donated more than 1,000 volumes o f material to Lipscomb Ed. n o te : Send y o u r news to : Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-m ail: ayoung@ ala.org. mailto:l-debe@tc.umn.edu mailto:m-john@tc.umn.edu http://www.syr.edu/information/media/archive/ mailto:ayoung@ala.org 140/C&RL News ■ February 2000 University’s Bailey Hymnal Collection. The gift includes 830 rare and old hymnals from a variety o f Christian traditions, some in German and Swedish. The gift also includes 257 v olu m es o f m usic ed u ca tio n , religiou s reference, music history, scores and more, which have been divided betw een the Bailey c o lle c tio n and th e g e n e ra l circu la tin g collection. Fettke’s classic choral work The M ajesty a n d G lory o f H is N a m e is sung throughout the world. He is also the creator and editor o f the H y m n a l f o r W orship a n d C eleb ration , o f which 3 million copies are used in churches today. C rim e fic tio n w rite r Ja m e s E llro y has donated his literary papers, including outlines, manuscripts, drafts, notes, and first editions o f his 16 books to the University o f South Carolina’s Thom as Cooper Library. Ellroy’s most famous book, L.A. C o n fid e n tia l, was published in 1990 as the final part o f his L.A. quartet, w hich also included T he B l a c k D a h lia , T he B ig N ow here, and W hile j a z z . Each o f these book s w ere international bestsellers, and L.A. C o n fid e n t ia l was made into an Oscar-winning movie. Ellroy was also highly acclaimed for his autobiographical work, My D a r k P la c es. The initial donation includes 40 linear feet o f materials and Ellroy has agreed to donate similar materials o f his future works. The archive o f Frederick R. Karl, literary biographer and critic, has been acquired by the University o f South Carolina. The archive covers the author’s biographies o f four writers, Jo se p h Conrad (1 9 7 9 ), William Faulkner (1989), Franz Kafka (1991), and G eorge Eliot (1995), with a full and w ell-organized record o f the stages through which he researched, drafted, developed, and edited each project. The archive also includes similarly detailed material for Karl’s other books (his novel on World War II Italy, The Quest, published in 1961, and two major critical books on m odem American fiction) and for a major long-term editorial project, the Jo sep h Conrad letters ( 1 9 8 3 - ), for which he has corresponded with more than 2,000 Conrad collectors, scholars, and librarians. The archive includes letters from other leading biographers, such as Leon Edel, Jo sep h Blotner, and Lionel T r illin g , as w e ll as o th e r s ig n ific a n t correspondents, such as Bertrand Russell and Jo h n Barth. H arrison T. M eserole, d is tin g u ish e d professor o f English emeritus, has donated more than 6,000 volumes to Texas A&M University. The collection includes Phillis W h e a tle y ’s P o e m s o n V a r io u s S u b je c t s R elig io u s a n d M o r a l (1773), the first edition o f America’s first African-American poet; The I d le M a n (1 8 2 1 -1 8 2 2 ), an early American periodical that published the work o f William Cullen Bryant; Anthony W ood ’s A th e n c O x o n ien s es (1721), the first biographical dictionary associated with Oxford University; and a volume from Mark Tw ain’s personal library. The Am on G. Carter Papers were acquired by Texas Christian University from the Amon G. Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The museum retained the series documenting museum activity, but the bulk o f the papers, measuring approximately 205 linear feet, are now located in Special Collections in the Mary Couts Burnett Library. In 14 record groups are correspondence, newspapers, scrapbooks, photographs and negatives, certificates, and memorabilia documenting the life and career o f Amon G. 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